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Edited by the 1989 Leibniz prizewinner Reinhard Stock, known for his research on the early universe plasma state, this is the latest reference on this rapidly changing field and has been completely rewritten with new contributions on cosmological and astrophysical questions. ... Read more

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The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments - from particle accelerators and underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories. For these research programs to succeed, novel techniques, new materials and new instrumentation need to be used in detectors, often on a large scale. Hence, particle physics is at the forefront of technological advancement and leads to numerous applications. Among these, medical applications have a particular importance due to the health and social benefits they bring. This volume reviews the advances made in all technological aspects of current experiments in the field. ... Read more

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advanced quantum mechanics for the standard model
By the time Dover published this, the book had become a classic.
It starts with a hard Noether theorem for conserved current.
On page 127 the books states that neutrinos should be massless.
On page 27 it gives an argument for the Higgs mechanism.
What has changed since 1984?
The neutrino has mass and the Higgs boson hasn't yet been found where it was predicted.
Also further particles that aren't in the standard model of physics are predicted by astronomical observations:
dark matter particles and dark energy.
We are faced with the idea that there may be a statistical mechanics besides the classical
bosons and leptons. None of that really changes that this book broke new ground in making available the ideas of the, then, new physics.
Hawking predicted an end to physics as a result of these theories ( and was wrong). I think one of the major problems with weak field physics
is the Feynman diagrams for Z(0) And W(+/-) interactions don't
balance energetically ( the intermediate, excited states are too large by
many powers of ten).
The failure of the standard model appears to be not one of design, but of not taking enough into account. As hard as this book is or as advanced, the truth seems to be even more of Lie algebras at higher symmetries... ... Read more

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Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination, The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition covers the history, the politics, and the personalities of particle physics. Extensively illustrated with many original photographs of the key players in the field, the book sheds new light on the sovereignty issues of modern scientific research as well as the insights it has produced.

Throughout the twentieth century, Europe and the United States have vied for supremacy of subnuclear physics. Initially, the advent of World War II and an enforced exodus of scientific talent from Europe boosted American efforts. Then, buoyed along by the need to develop the bomb and the ensuing distrust of the Cold War, the United States vaulted into a commanding role-a position it retained for almost fifty years. Throughout this period, each new particle accelerator was a major campaign, each new particle a battle won.

With the end of the Cold War, U.S. preeminence evaporated and Europe retook the advantage. Now CERN, for four decades the spearhead of the European fightback, stands as the leading global particle physics center. Today, particle physics is at a turning point in its history-how well Europe retains its advantage remains to be seen. ... Read more

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An exciting account
High energy, or particle physics, as it is called in the title of this book , is the field of research whose purpose is to find out which are the building blocks of matter.The author portrays a nice historic account of its development throughout the 20th Century, up to 1997, when the bookwas written.

Although it is clear that the author's intention is to highlight the development of the Counseil Européen de Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), he has a far more interesting story to tell. The achievement of scientific discoveries and harvest of Nobel prizes have always been the matter of national pride, and nobody doubts this was a most important motivation for the support this field of science received during the Cold War. However,the subtitle "How Europe fought the Particle Physics War" is misleading, as shown by the author himself. Throughout the book it is shown how high energy physics has benefited from the strong collaboration between scientists from many different countries. It tells us how many European scientists emigrated to America as a result of the rise of Nazism, and how this shifted the centre of gravity of physics research across the Atlantic. Not only did the immigrants' contributions fell in fertile soil, where a physics community was reaching maturity, but the extraordinary results they were able to achieve stimulated the growth of major scientific projects. By the end of the war, the prestige of nuclear scientists and the hope for a better world supported by scientific discoveries, made it possible to get support for bigger and more energetic particle accelerators; the quark machines. It is understandable that Europe was initially left behind, because of the economic conditions of the post war era, and it was necessary for European scientists to travel to America, in order to keep abreast of the new developments, just as their American colleagues needed to travel to Europe before the war. However, this situation would not last. The foundation of CERN, the innovative idea of a laboratory where scientists from all over Europe could get the best possible facilities in the world, was to solve this problem. At first it was necessary to build up the collaboration environment necessary within Europe, but as soon as it was established, CERN, in Geneva, became a new international collaboration site for scientists all over the world, along with SLAC, Fermilab and, Brookhaven, at the U.S.A., and DORIS, DESY and HERA in Germany. In the 80's and 90's a the major project was proposed in the U.S.A.: a Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), consisting in asuperconcucting magnet accelerator lodged in a circular tunnel with a circunference of 80 km., in contrast with CERN's Large Electron Collider (LEP), whose circumference is 27 km. Alas! This project was not to materialise. The end of Cold War, the quest for a balanced budget, and protests from scientists in other fields of research, led the U.S.A. Congress to shut down the project, even when there was already a significant advancement in it. This led to increase the American participation in CERN, and its forthcoming project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled for 2005. The author tells us how CERN has more recently been opened to the participation of other non-European countriesbesides the U.S.A., such as Japan, which has contributed five million yen to the LHC construction, Russia, that will provide 500 magnets,Canada, India and Israel.. Europe is by no means free of economic hardship, and he devotes the last chapter of the book to tell about the problems LHC had to face, before an agreement from member countries could be reached in order to get a green light.

In order to understand the need for such expensive quark machines, it is necessary to have at least a rough idea of the relevance of the scientific discoveries they help to achieve. The author succeeds in conveying the excitement of High Energy Physicsresearch, guiding us through a historic account of how, in the course a century, a whole new picture of the structure of matter was produced. He keeps a nice balance in explaining the nomenclature that has arisen, while avoiding the use of unnecessary jargon. The standard model of elementary particles, the prevailing theoretical tool for understanding many of their features, is brilliantly sketched. The importance of good detectors along with accelerators is clearly stressed. I would have liked to see this part of the book expanded, and illustrated with more figures, explaining the composition of particles by different kinds of quarks. A clearer explanation of the quest to detect particles with naked charm or beauty, for instance, is lacking. The discovery of the top quark at Fermilab is only mentioned in passing. However, it is clear that the main purpose of the book is not so much to provide a popular monograph on high energy physics, as to tell the story of CERN, placing it in the context ofworldwide research, and setting it as a paradigm for European integration. .This historic account is supplemented with interesting anecdotes that introduce us to the personalities of the characters involved.

The book is written for a general public, and is highly recommendable for anyone interested in understanding the achievements of 20th Century physics, specially physics students. Since high energy physics is rapidly advancing, it will be outdated in a few years. Whatever shortcomings it may have, may be corrected by the author in further editions, when discoveries from such machine as the LHC, and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven become available. ... Read more

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Recounts the dramatic history of the search for the ultimate constituents of matter by presenting key material on more than 500 seminal papers in particle physics. Paper. DLC: Particles (Nuclear physics) - History. ... Read more

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This lively well-illustrated collection of articles written by a group of particle physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory presents to the expert and non-expert alike a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical and experimental advances of the past twenty years. It explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature. With the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interaction, physicists now stand at the brink of a complete unification of all the forces, including gravity. This achievement brought with it a rich vocabulary of names and concepts: quarks, gluons and nonabelian gauge theories. The exposition of these ideas, done on a variety of technical levels is designed to interest a broad audience ranging from the professional theorist and experimentalist to the inquisitive student. Anyone with an interest in particle physics can enjoy this book. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICATPP-7, held October 15-19, 2001 in Villa, Olmo, Como, Italy. Features up to date technology applications to radiation detection. ... Read more

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Computer simulation of systems has become an important tool in scientific research and engineering design, including the simulation of systems through the motion of their constituent particles. Important examples of this are the motion of stars in galaxies, ions in hot gas plasmas, electrons in semiconductor devices, and atoms in solids and liquids. The behavior of the system is studied by programming into the computer a model of the system and then performing experiments with this model. New scientific insight is obtained by observing such computer experiments, often for controlled conditions that are not accessible in the laboratory.

Computer Simulation using Particles deals with the simulation of systems by following the motion of their constituent particles. This book provides an introduction to simulation using particles based on the NGP, CIC, and P3M algorithms and the programming principles that assist with the preparations of large simulation programs based on the OLYMPUS methodology. It also includes case study examples in the fields of astrophysics, plasmas, semiconductors, and ionic solids as well as more detailed mathematical treatment of the models, such as their errors, dispersion, and optimization.

This resource will help you understand how engineering design can be assisted by the ability to predict performance using the computer model before embarking on costly and time-consuming manufacture. ... Read more

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Classic text in N-body methods
This was the text for the course I took in N-body/particle methods in grad school. Concentrates mainly on PIC/PM and PPPM methods. Could be updated with further developments of these techniques. You will need to supplement info with articles or other books on modern scientific programming methods. The info in this book is primarily theoretical development of the numerical methods. Implementation is not trivial. Definitely a must-have as a reference. ... Read more

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Recent years have seen a symbiosis of the fields of elementary particle physics and the astrophysics of the early universe. This text presents the background of the subjects and the latest developments at a level suitable for a physics undergraduate. After introductory chapters on elementary particles and their interactions and role in the expanding universe, the problems and challenges of cosmological asymmetries, dark matter and dark energy are presented, followed by chapters on the growth of cosmic structure, on high energy cosmic rays and on particle processes in stars. A balance is maintained between theory and experiment and the text supplemented with over 100 problems, together with answers and model solutions. ... Read more

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Partial impressions are good
Bought this book a little while ago to help me with an article I wrote in one of the local popular science magazines. I have only read parts of it (that concerned the article metioned above) and found it to be quite readable and well structured. I was not a great fan of the authors previous book - Introduction to High Energy Physics - as a postgraduate student since I felt that it lacked the depth I was looking for, so I was a bit skeptical concerning this book as well. Nevertheless, it was of great help to me and the parts that I read were well written. This is not a "heavy" book and it could prove to be of interest for readers with a background in university level Physics without needing a lot of Maths to understand the concepts.
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Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this book gives the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of an exciting physics revolution--the rise of the Standard Model. The third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics, this volume focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman, and John Heilbron. A collaboration of physicists and historians of science, the wide-ranging articles explorethe detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model. ... Read more

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essays from key authors of Standard Model
While the essays perhaps strive to reach a wide audience, the reality is that the typical reader will likely be a physicist or student of science history. If this fits your background, then the book is indeed an informative account of how the so-called Standard Model arose.

Much of the book's value is that several authors were key participants in the development of the Standard Model. Foremost might be Murray Gell-Mann. But let's not forget Weinberg and Lederman. Future historians can see here in the words of these men how pivotal ideas arose and gelled into an overarching and still dominant framework unifying much of physics.

We also see how the expensive particle accelerators proved their worth. (At least to physicists!) In providing experimental evidence of particles predicted or explained by the Standard Model. ... Read more

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Nachtmann's Elementary Particle physics
This out-of-print book deserves to be reprinted and bought by everyone.It is a mathematical physics version of the popular books on elementary forces and elementary particles except gravitation: the electromagnetic,strong, and weak forces, which occur in quantum electrodynamics (QED),quantum chromdynamics (QCD), and quantum flavor dynamics (QFD) as well asthe standard and and grand unified models.The reader without themathematical background should buy the book and hire a good consultant ortutor to translate the book into almost ordinary English or even to teachthe mathematics involved.The Editor and some other reviewers havecommented on the easy to read bold face print.Most people do not realizehow rare the use of easy to read print is in physics.It is more common inmathematics, thanks largely to Springer/Springer-Verlag publishers inGermany where Nachtmann is one of the outstanding physics algebraictheorists.Nachtmann emphasizes Lagrangian densities and the Hamiltoniansand Least Action Principle related to them, which is one of the highestlevel and most effective concepts in all of science and mathematics andshould be understood by people in other fields as well.I have arguedelsewhere that Lagrangians are a fundamental mathematical logic basis ofthe universe (sort of a Kurt Godel type argument in physics - recall theprize-winning book Godel, Bach, and Escher), but Nachtmann's approach isalgebraic and experimental.

Comprehensive yet indepth review of the subject.
I have found this one of the most outstanding books in the field and particularly easy to teach out of.It would be marvellous to have an updated edition of the book and also a better index.I recommend it moststrongly to beginners as well as experts. ... Read more

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This book summarizes basic knowledge of atomic, nuclear, and radiation physics that professionals need for efficient and safe use of ionizing radiation. Concentrating on the underlying principles of radiation physics, it covers prerequisite knowledge for medical physics courses on the graduate and post-graduate levels, providing the link between elementary physics on the one hand and the intricacies of the medical physics specialties on the other.

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Over 3,000 terms with clear, working definitions, alternative meanings, and related references comprise this uniquely focused lexicon. Published in a convenient, paperback format, it covers chemical, energy, nuclear, plasma, condensed matter, and solid-state physics, fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, thermodynamics, and materials science. ... Read more

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A concise, balanced overview of the most important topics in experimental particle physics of the past forty years is presented in this comprehensive study. Beginning with a review of particle physics and electromagnetic and nuclear interactions, the book continues with a discussion of three nearly universal aspects of particle physics experiments: beams, targets and fast electrons.The second part of the text details the properties of various types of particle detectors, such as scintillation and Cerenkov counters, proportional and drift chambers, sampling calorimeters, and special detectors.The last chapter demonstrates how the various aspects of the previous chapters can be integrated in an experimental system.There are numerous references to the research literature, in addition to examples and workable problems. ... Read more

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Good item for students who study experimental high energy physics
Before this book, I read Leo's "techniques for nuclear and particle physics experiments". Yes, it's also a good book but is focused more on the basic principles and tools for beginners. This Fernow's book is more practical than Leo's, I think. It describes the each set of detectors which are designed and used at the ordinary research facilities and these are really helpful to me. If you feel a little bit hard to make your picture after reading Leo's, reading this book might be helpful.

Essential reading for High Energy Physics Experimentalists
Although this book is somewhat dated and badly in need of a new edition, it still contains essential material for those in experimental high energy physics.I know of no other single book which covers HEP detectors in more depth.Many of the principles in this book apply also to newer detectors not covered and this is critical background reading for new grad students in the field.

My only complaint:the book is now printed digitally and looks it.Some of the pages were almost unreadable and the cover looks like it was done on your laser printer.I'm used to better quality from Cambridge Press.

Good Book
This book is more of an advanced level reading for graduate students pursuing careers in particle physics.The basic content is refreshing and I am glad that the explanation of accelerated particles was establishedearly in the book, which gave meat to he later context.Overall, I givethis book a three-star, because many theories were repeated throughout thebook, which got a little annoying. ... Read more

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This book gives a comprehensive account of local quantum physics, understood as the synthesis of quantum theory with the principle of locality. Centered on the algebraic approach it describes both the physical concepts and the mathematical structures, and their consequences. These include the emergence of the particle picture, general collision theory covering the cases of massless particles and infraparticles, the analysis of possible charge structures and exchange symmetries, including braid group statistics. Thermal states of an unbounded medium and local equilibrium are discussed in detail. The author takes care both to describe the ideas and to give a critical assessment of future perspectives. The new edition contains numerous improvements and a new chapter concerning formalism and interpretation of quantum theory. ... Read more

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A good first step.
I found this book particularly useful as an introduction to Algebraic Quantum Field Theory. It is sufficient as a first step to this branch of mathematical physics, as full comprehension of this book is enough to comprehend lectures on AQFT conferences.

I practically owe my today's academical self to this work...
As someone working in the field created by Prof. Haag - Local Quantum Physics, aka Algebraic Quantum Field Theory - I feel somewhat oblidged to write a review on this book. This is all the more true when a large amount of misunderstandings about this subject among, so to speak, "outsiders", pervade the community of theoretical physics. As for me, I had the good luck of having Local Quantum Physics as my entering door to Quantum Field Theory, after my undergraduate involvement with Nuclear Physics. Learning this through (in a major part) Prof. Haag's book, alongside with a conventional course in QFT, has helped me clear several conceptual issues underlying QFT tools and calculations - specially renormalization - which alone seemed to me more witchcraft than physics.

The aims of Local Quantum Physics, even when linked to computational issues, are eminently structural and conceptual, going beyond particular models. These concerns are transparentin this book, where only the essentials of the Lagrangian approach are mentioned, and even these with a conceptually clean and deep purpose (just to cite an example, quantization of free fields are treated in a covariant way by using the Peierls' bracket, instead of canonical quantization), and with no predilection whatsoever by any particular quantization technique (for instance, path integrals are only mentioned "en passant", with no formulas, in Section VIII.1, in the discussion on the Euclidean/Lagrangian approach to QFT). This last proviso, which is a common source of complaint, actually (at least, it looks so to me) bears the following message under the aegis of the aims above: the physical concepts of QFT have nothing to do with the quantization method chosen. Although the justification for this is somewhat subtle, it ends up being a natural consequence of the line of thinking along which this book proceeds.

Most of the things about which Prof. Haag writes in this book seem to have been thought about for a pretty long time. It's thanks to this that the formalism of Local Quantum Physics acquired a remarkably flexible and synthetic language. The underlying idea, present in almost every topic treated in the book, is the principle of locality ("Nahwirkungsprinzip" = "Principle of local action", i.e., no action at a distance). Namely, that physical procedures are all localized in finitely extended regions of spacetime, as it "usually" happens in experimental situations, and that the matter of choosing a Hilbert space on which these procedures act (often based on global criteria such as the concept of a vacuum state) is mainly a matter of convenience. The abstract framework of C*- and von Neumann algebras is what allows one to work independently of a particular representation. This is strengthened by Einstein causality - physical procedures localized at causally disjoint regions commute with each other (This is quite distinct from locality in the sense of the EPR phenomenon, which is intrinsically linked to the notion - here generalized - of states, this one still highly nonlocal, as restrictions of a state to two causally disjoint local algebras of procedures can, and do, present quantum entanglement if this state is suitably prepared), and Poincaré covariance.

The principle of locality, when applied to the myriad of inequivalent representations of the local algebras which is characteristic of QFT, lead to enormous achievements (most of them described in the book), such as: the meaning of internal global symmetries and fermion degrees of freedom, and how these emerge from the observables alone, independently of the assumption of an underlying field theory (superselection sectors); the meaning of infinities and renormalization in perturbation theory (disjointness and quasi-equivalence of representations); a natural setting for QFT at finite temperature and its thermodynamics (KMS condition, modular techniques, phase space conditions); when moving to curved spacetime, the clarification of the (still open) issue of the choice of physical states from nonessentials and how this forces us to "unlearn" several concepts of Minkowski QFT (Unruh effect, etc.). Recent developments by the schools of Wald and Fredenhagen show the growing importance of the latter and related problems.

Finally, other two admirable aspects of Haag's book are the honest treatment of latest developments regarding conceptual open issues such as the meaning of local gauge invariance in quantum theory, the infrared problem, and questions regarding the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the meaning o spacetime itself. Haag's closing personal views on the latter, in the light of the mathematical formalism of Local Quantum Physics, bear an intriguing resemblance with modern ideas by Rovelli, Ashtekar, etc. on loop quantum gravity.

The book as a whole takes quite some time to digest, due to the mathematical machinery involved (functional analysis and an acquaintance in C*-algebra theory are a rather strongly recommended background) and the subtlety of the physical ideas. But, to sum up, for me it was, in due time, the ultimate temptress.

A complete recapitulation
LQFT, a kind of Axiomatic Quantum Field theory, was slowly
developed during the 1970 age to provide solid fundamentals
to quantum fields. Haag was one of the leaders of the
development, and this book resumes the climax of the theory.

From here the development has continued, looking for nets
of observables as a tool to incorporate the renormalization
mechanism. But it is to be noted that, since then, a branch
of C* algebras has developed to formulate NonCommutative
geometry, a tool completely unavailable to the people working
in Local Quantum Field Theory. One should kept a leg in
each side, aiming to marry both formalims.

Deserves 10 stars
Quantum field theory is a subject that has occupied the time of an enormous number of researchers, both in physics and in mathematics. Those who have studied perturbation methods in quantum field theory have no doubt run acroos "Haag's theorem" that is usually loosely stated as saying that "the interactive representation does not exist". The statement of this theorem, and many other results in quantum field theory, particularly the procedure of renormalization, have been viewed by many as unsound from a mathematical standpoint, and so efforts were begun to put quantum field theory on a rigorous mathematical foundation. Going by the names of axiomatic or constructive quantum field theory, these approaches are interesting, but also a little troubling from a scientific perspective. Axiomitization is usually appropriate in mathematics when a subject has matured to the point where it can be "closed off", and this usually happens when the theory is very well understood and so its essence can be codified in a few well-forumlated axioms. But quantum field theory is no where near that stage; indeed one can say that it continues to be a theory that, oddly, has immense predictive power but whose rigorous mathematical formulation remains elusive. Not only that, quantum field theory is still in a course of evolution, and any attempt at axiomitization might become obsolete as soon as it is put down on paper. In addition, physical insight, as much as mathematical understanding, must not be sacrificed in any resulting axiomatization of quantum field theory. Frequently, the result of axiomatization is to divorce a physical theory from its physical roots, and beginning students of the theory then have difficulty in acquiring intuition of the essential physics of the theory.

One of the best attributes of this book is that the author realizes this, and early on he refers to "general", rather than "axiomatic" QFT as being more appropriate since it allows flexibility in relation to future discoveries. Not only that, the author endeavors to explain the formalism that he is expousing in the book, and he succeeds brilliantly. Anyone interested in the mathematical physics behind quantum field theory, and not just doing bread-and-butter perturbation calculations, will gain a lot from the reading of this book. It is packed full of insight, a rare occurence in books that employ the heavy mathematical formalism that this one does. One will need a strong background in operator theory, abstract theory, and several complex variables to read the book, but a lot of this is developed impromptu as the text unfolds. When it is not, the author gives references for those readers who need more in-depth discussion.

There are so many ineresting discussions in this book that space does not permit an evaluation of all of them, but the following is a short list of points in the book that I found particularly well-written: 1. The Wigner analysis of irreducible unitary representations of the Poincare group. This is not a mathematically rigorous discussion, but the author points out the physical relevance of the fact that the spectrum of the 4-momentum operator must be concentrated on a single orbit. This fact ensures the stability of matter. And, as frequently happens in physics, several mathematical consequences of a particular physical theory are discarded as not being relevant; in this case the other three classes of the irreducible representations. That being said, the author does include as of possible physical relevance the idea of parastatistics. He points out his reasons for this, namely that a strict adherence to the Bose-Fermi alternative is not operationally justified. 2. The role of fields in implementing the principle of locality and not as observable particles. This fact is usually not emphasized in books on quantum field theory. 3. The author clarifies the distinction between the notion of locality that deals with the commutation of two observables that are space-like separated, and the one dealing with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Bell's inequality. 4. The discussion on the Bose-Einstein alternative, in particular the suggestion that parastatistics can be replaced by Bose or Fermi statistics in the presence of a non-Abelian unbroken global gauge group. 5. The discussion on topological charges and their prohibition by the Doplicher-Haag-Roberts selection criterion. The Doplicher-Haag-Roberts criterion was used in scattering theory and thought to be reasonable, but the author shows that its use is problematic in this case also, as well as in prohibiting topological charge. Purely massive fields can, it turns out, have measurable correlations at large distances, and Borcher's selection criterion, also discussed along these lines, gives topological charges. 6. The treatment of the Tomita-Takesaki theorem, modular automorphisms, and their connection to the KMS-condition. 7. The discussion on the need for type III-1 von Neumann algebras in relativistic quantum field theory versus type I in ordinary quantum mechanics. Such a von Neumann algebra is hyperfinite and is unique. 8. The discussion on the impossibility of coherent wave packets of one-electron states in quantum field theory, as contrasted with the usual practice in quantum mechanics. This is dues to superselection rules and the "infraparticle" nature of electrically charged particles, which are not associated with discrete eigenvalues of the mass operator. The author asks the reader to justify electron interference experiments in quantum field theory.

The most important book about algebraic qft by its founder
In spite of the succes of quantum field theory it became very early clear that this theory needed a new mathematical formulation. Haag was one of the founders of this new theory which was later called algebraic quantumfield theory but Haag himself preferred "local quantum physics".

The algebra of observables is designed as the C*-inductive limit of anet of von Neumann-algebras the index set of which is formedof opensubsets of space-time. The book discusses the DHR-selection criterion aswell as the BF-criterion of Buchholz and Fredenhagen that is more adequateto massive fields. Furthermore Haag gives a short introduction tostatistical qft in the algebraic framework. Especially the KMS-conditionwhich was formulated in the sixties by Haag, Hugenholtz and Winnink isdiscussed.

A highly recommended book! ... Read more

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This monograph surveys the role of some associative andnon-associative algebras, remarkable by their ubiquitous appearance incontemporary theoretical physics, particularly in particle physics. Itconcerns the interplay between division algebras, specificallyquaternions and octonions, between Jordan and related algebras on theone hand, and unified theories of the basic interactions on theother. Selected applications of these algebraic structures arediscussed: quaternion analyticity of Yang-Mills instantons, octonionicaspects of exceptional broken gauge, supergravity theories, divisionalgebras in anyonic phenomena and in theories of extended objects incritical dimensions. The topics presented deal primarily with originalcontributions by the authors. ... Read more

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This monograph introduces modern developments on the bound state problem in Schrödinger potential theory and its applications in particle physics. The Schrödinger equation provides a framework for dealing with energy levels of N-body systems. It was a cornerstone of the quantum revolution in physics of the twenties but re-emerged in the eighties as a powerful tool in the study of spectra and decay properties of mesons and baryons. This book begins with a detailed study of two-body problems, including discussion of general properties, level ordering problems, energy level spacing and decay properties. Following chapters treat relativistic generalisations, and the inverse problem. Finally, 3-body problems and N-body problems are dealt with. Applications in particle and atomic physics are considered, including quarkonium spectroscopy. The emphasis throughout is on showing how the theory can be tested by experiment. Many references are provided. ... Read more